Operation Supercharge

Operation Supercharge was an Allied counterattack carried out in northern Egypt from 2 to 11 November 1942 on the orders of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, seeing British Army and New Zealander troops launch an offensive against the weakened Afrika Korps after the Second Battle of El Alamein. The British used waves of Crusader tanks to assault the German positions, as the German panzers had better range than the British tanks; the British armored vehicles were supported by infantry, who fought over German-held trenches and tunnels. The British succeeded in driving the Axis forces out of Egypt and into Libya in the following weeks, and the Germans suffered a serious setback.